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Poles ended up looking so oriental, in fact, that at the battle of Vienna in 1683 Jan Sobieski had to order his troops to wear straw cockades so as to distinguish them from the enemy Turks. With serfdom and Sarmatism
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Anna Reid (Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine)
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1683 he aided the legendary King Jan Sobieski and much of Christian Europe in keeping Vienna—and therefore Eastern Europe—from the Turks.
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James Conroyd Martin (The Poland Trilogy: Push Not the River; Against a Crimson Sky; The Warsaw Conspiracy (Boxed Set))